Champ Car World Series Announces Improved International Television Package for 2006

[Cygni]

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2006-04-04

Fans of the Champ Car World Series follow the series from every corner of the world, and in 2006 the series has put together a television package that allows all of those fans to watch the exploits of their favorite teams and drivers as they chase the prestigious Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford championship.

Champ Car will provide increased coverage of its races around the world in 2006, with a new international television package that brings race action to 170 countries via a number of respected broadcast partners. Eurosport will carry action from every stop on the Champ Car schedule to 57 countries in 15 different languages on its primary Eurosport channel. Ten of the 15 races will be shown live with the remaining races to receive same-day coverage. FOX Sports Latin America will carry live Champ Car events in Spanish throughout Latin America and the Caribbean while FOX Sports Middle East & Africa will service 60 countries with series coverage.

“As the Champ Car World Series becomes more of a destination for drivers from around the world, it is important that our television package allows all of our fans to be able to follow the series,” said Champ Car President Steve Johnson. “Not only are we increasing the number of countries carrying our events, but we have also increased the amount of live coverage, which is something that our fans around the world have asked from us.”

Canadian fans will have a new option for following the Champ Car World Series in 2006 as the entire 80-hour package on SPEED will be available in Canada for the first time. In addition, RDS will provide live and same-day coverage of the series for Canada‘s French-speaking population. Long-time partner Network Ten will carry Champ Car action to Australia fans each Monday evening along with news and features in its popular Sunday afternoon RPM magazine show.

Along with race and qualifying coverage, several other broadcast entities will keep fans up to date with the latest happenings in the Champ Car World Series via anthology shows such as Motors TV in Europe, AB Moteurs in France and world-wide shows such as Martini World Circuit.

International news broadcasters will also be able to receive the latest footage from each Champ Car event through SNTV, which is a sports news service that provides video to more than 190 countries worldwide. The action from the 2006 season will also be made available to military personnel via the American Forces Network (AFN), which provides programming around the world.

In addition to the abovementioned television partners, Champ Car will continue to pursue further broadcast options in a number of countries both terrestrial and cable in order to bring all the action of the Champ Car World Series to fans around the world.

The 2006 Champ Car season gets underway this weekend with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which takes place April 7- 9. The first of the year‘s 15 races will get the green flag on Sunday, April 9 at 4 p.m. Eastern and can be seen live in the United States on NBC.

Also note that this includes LIVE coverage in Britain on the Eurosport network, contrary to prior reports.

[Jim Wilke]

I heard da Matta was telling folks there will be no live TV in Brazil. True?

[Cygni]

I heard da Matta was telling folks there will be no live TV in Brazil. True?

I dont know? I posted a press release ... if its not in the press releaseor being discussed on another board, i have no idea of knowing. I live in California, not Brazil.

[flatlander_48]

Please explain why those teams would run the CCWS instead? Less fans, horrible TV package, whats the point?

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2006-04-04

Fans of the Champ Car World Series follow the series from every corner of the world, and in 2006 the series has put together a television package that allows all of those fans to watch the exploits of their favorite teams and drivers as they chase the prestigious Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford championship.

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[bryant guy]

Ya get what you pay for.

[Spike]

IRL's St. Petersburg Will Be Seen In 147 Countries And Territories

There was a thread about a similar announcement for the IRL on the IndyCar forum a few days back.

[Coyote Red]

[Cygni]

This isnt hard math... foreign TV = more eyeballs. More eyeballs = more reason for an international company to sponsors. International companies = the ones with the millions to throw around sponsoring racecars. Not so difficult here...

Its also good for the fans of the series in other places, but since this is splitzville, fans obviously dont matter.

[cleanupcrew]

you were told the name of the Series is ChampCar - and to use it

you chose to ignore that good advice from your friendly mods - which is always done at your own peril

say goodnite to Red class ...... he wont be able to come out and play for a while ....

[dog-ring]

Good package...............

[Disciple]

Wonder whether they used a time broker or bought it themselves...and how much it cost?

[drummer]

Hmm... no improvement for me.

I still only have the option of watching every race on free-to-air TV as it has pretty much always been.

[SLKRR]

I heard da Matta was telling folks there will be no live TV in Brazil. True?

In 2004, they were on RedeTV (network) live, but the quality of the Spike feeds was terrible. Last year, they were moved to SporTV2 (cable), which in some ways was a move up (or at least sideways), like moving from UPN to ESPN2. I have yet to see an update from either of these channels for 2006. The CCWS website still says RedeTV, but it said that throughout all last season, too, so I don't look there for info. We shall see.

For comparison, the IRL has about half their races live on BAND (network) and the rest live on BANDSports (cable). Formula 1 has all races and qualifying sessions live on Globo (network - the big one).

[Chris Paff]

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Who really cares about the International package.. Its about USA viewership.. Its a USA based series.. Still i really dont see a point to this series.. Time buys arent going to build your series.. It just costs KK more money..

[OWNUT]

Now we know were some of that 2 seater money went to.

[Electrocuted]

This isnt hard math... foreign TV = more eyeballs. More eyeballs = more reason for an international company to sponsors. International companies = the ones with the millions to throw around sponsoring racecars. Not so difficult here...

Problem is, Cygni,,, posters from around the world post that no one watches the races or knows what CC is in their country. Europe and Asia have a very very small folowing, Canada shrunk, Mexico huge shrink, Brazil left years ago......

No BIG sponsor will pay out millions to get the itty bitty number of viewers from around the globe that CC brings in. Besides,, there's the "Division" thing also. As in Quaker State Mexico Division, Western Union Canada Division. The Divisions only pay for the amount of exposure they get in their country.

The "global" reach is just that,,,,,, a big worthless reach..

[Roninho]

This isnt hard math... foreign TV = more eyeballs. More eyeballs = more reason for an international company to sponsors. International companies = the ones with the millions to throw around sponsoring racecars. Not so difficult here...

Its also good for the fans of the series in other places, but since this is splitzville, fans obviously dont matter.

It's great for euro-fans like me who want to watch cc, because eurosport is available is most homes in europe. However the ratings eurosport draws won't even be close to the numbers needed to attract the millions needed to run cc. For example, cc on eurosport in the uk draws a couple of tenthousend viewers. Motors tv and abmoteurs is even worse.

As i said, great for the fans, but the sponsorshipthingy is really not worth much.